Gurram Pavitra
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist professional with over 8 years of comprehensive experience in Human Resources, specializing in talent acquisition and organizational growth. Proven track record in identifying and recruiting top talent while streamlining hiring processes to enhance efficiency and employer branding.
Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills foster effective relationships, driving team success and contributing to a collaborative workplace culture. Committed to utilizing expertise to secure a responsible position within the HR department that supports both individual and organizational development.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Chargebee
10.2021 - 09.2022
- Expertise in hiring for Technology (CTO), Product (CPO) and Techno-Functional (COO) roles.
- Leadership and Diversity hiring for Sr. SDM/Software Development Manager, Sr. Software Engineers/Software Engineers, Lead Data Scientist/Sr. Data Scientist, Sr. Azure Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineer, SRE, Sr. Technical Account Manager, Sr. Solution Engineer, Java Web Application Developers (Front-end, Back-end and Full Stack), Visual Designers, UI/UX Designer, Migration Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Analyst, QA Engineer, SDET etc.
- Inviting candidates to take Hackerearth, coding assignments and educating them with test instructions to complete.
- Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS like businesses and Streamline Revenue Operations. Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, and PayPal etc. around the world to let you automate recurring payment collection along with invoicing, taxes, Accounting, email notifications, SaaS Metrics and customer management.
- Taking care of end-end recruitment process from initial profile screening, interview process till the offer roll out and post offer engagement with the candidate until onboarding.
- Effectively participate in team meetings with internal stakeholders – Vice President, Talent Acquisition Head, and Hiring Managers etc.
- Experience in handling team members and set up weekly or monthly one on one individual meeting to track the recruitment process and performance of the individual.
- Actively initiate debrief sessions with the Hiring managers and interview panel members to take Hire/No Hire decision.
- Implemented RAG analysis in view of recruitment to track individual performance.
- Maintain hiring plan commit sheet for each team member to set their weekly/monthly targets.
Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist
Amazon
04.2021 - 07.2021
- Leadership Hiring for Sr.SDM/Software Development Manager, Sr.TPM/Technical Program Manager, Senior PMT/Product Manager Technical Roles and Engineering Manager Roles.
- Mid-Senior Level hiring multiple roles with various skill set combinations based on requirement needs including Java Technologies, Cloud Technologies, and Tech-Management roles. Full Stack Developers, Application Engineers, UI Developers, Front End and Back End etc.
- Partner with hiring managers to identify role of interview team, assign competencies using both technical and behavioral interviewing models.
- Experience in Diversity Hiring based on Business requirement needs.
- Identify candidates through multiple sources including employee referrals, social networking sites (e.g. LinkedIn) and actively participate internal Marathons to close positions on priority.
- Create and accomplish a recruiting strategy, which results in a top-tier, qualified talent pool of professionals and a strong candidate pipeline.
- Act as the main recruiting contact for internal Stakeholders and Agency groups to develop sound business relationships to achieve stated goals.
- Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The company has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", as well as the world's most valuable brand.
Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant
Apptio Inc.
12.2019 - 09.2020
- Core responsibility - Handling end-to-end vendor interaction, involved with review and vendor meetings.
- Collaborate with Directors of Engineering and Hiring Managers on staffing plans/budgets, then develop and execute recruitment plans accordingly.
- Create strong fundamentals to manage end to end recruitment process from demand management to sourcing, reviewing, interviewing, offer management and finally on boarding process.
- Understand and improve our internal recruitment processes to make them more effective and efficient, while upholding quality measures, volume in pipelines along with providing a great recruitment experience to candidates.
- Determines applicant qualifications by interviewing applicants, analyzing responses, verifying references, and comparing qualifications to job requirements.
- Involved in full resourcing lifecycle from forecasting and planning to deliver the best fit resources to various projects. Leadership Hiring (Manager Level) roles as per the organization requirement.
- Keep track of recruiting metrics (e.g., time-to-hire and cost-per-hire). Extensive experience to create excels reports daily, weekly andmonthly.
- Worked on hiring roles such as Workday HCM, Senior Recruiter, HRBP and Recruitment Coordinator.
- Worked closely with Customer Success department roles such as Technical Senior Technical Support Engineer, QA/Sr. QA consultants, Cloud/Premier – Customer Success Manager, Implementation Specialist/Consultants.
- Worked on Future Joiners engagement plan to reduce the attrition on offer accepted drop out ratio.
- Apptio is a product-based organization founded in 2007 and it's headquartered in Bellevue, WA. Apptio is a leading provider of technology business management solutions for large enterprises, mid-market customers and the public sector. Apptio Inc., SaaS solutions help organizations make smart decisions as they analyze, plan, optimize, control, and collaborate about the investments that will transform the IT operating model. Apptio develops SaaS solutions that enable businesses.
- Technologies Worked:
- IT Infrastructure: VoIP Engineer, CI/CD Engineer/Infrastructure Engineer, Tech Ops Roles (PHP, PHP Lead).
- Manager SDE, Product Manager, Principal/Staff SDE, Java Full Stack, Software Development Engineer I/II, Application Engineer, Senior SDE, Software Development Tools and SDE React Development Engineer etc.
- Testing: Manual and Automation Test roles, QAE, Senior QAE, Selenium Web drive, Performance testing.
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Sun Technology Integrators
04.2016 - 10.2019
- Handling the entire end-to-end recruitment cycle forthe organization.
- Initial Screening of the Profiles and delivering the quality candidates.
- Sourcing potential candidates for required skill set through existing database, job portals, Job Posting, Mass mailing, Personal Network, LinkedIn, Naukri, Monster, Indeed.com, direct reference, Internal & External Reference.
- Conducting Telephonic Interviews with the Candidate (to check their consistency, Communication Skills, Project experience, Technical Expertise, interest towards the organization and the role provided by the management, Availability, Relocation, Cost and other related factors).
- Experience into Contract Staffing, Closed C2H roles for the clients Infosys and Intel.
- Taking face to face interviews for junior level positions &non-technical positions (Recruiters and US Recruiters).
- Worked majorly on consultant and Infrastructure requirements, Niche skills and other requirements like Testing, Application development and Recruiter including BFSI domain requirement hiring.
- Sourcing candidates via job boards like Naukri, Monster, and LinkedIn, different database (Sixth sense and Internal) and through Passive sourcing (X-ray Search, Boolean search string, Google search & indeed.com).
- Head hunting & Portal search of profiles for various positions.
- Scheduling and follow up with candidates from initial interviews till final on-boarding.
- Update the interview feedback to Candidates.
- Maintain candidate's database.
- Creating various reports – Hiring report for different skills/ employee reference tracker, performance report, candidate submission tracker.
- Technologies Worked:
- IT Infrastructure: DB2DBA (LUW/Zos), Linux Admin, Solaris Admin, Ecom monitoring, ECom security, Hyper-V, Hadoop Admin, Tibco Admin, Network Security, Oracle Apps DBA, Oracle DBA, Ruby n rails, SAS Admin, Build & release, SCCM, Jboss Admin, SQL DBA, Stability Management, Unix Admin, VMware Admin, Windows Admin. Windows Server, Storage Admin, Teradata Admin, Cassandra Admin, Networking, Security (Firewall, Checkpointetc.)
- Java Full Stack, Senior Software Architect & Solution Architect – Java, Java Micro services, SOA, SQL Developer, SAP BODS, Core Java, J2SE, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, Struts Swings, Hibernate, spring, XML, HTML, Java Script, JQuery.
- Testing: Manual and Automation Test roles, QA, ETL testing, Mainframe testing, Selenium testing, Performance testing.
- BFSI Domain: Techno Functional – Flexcube (UBS & Retail), Finacle, Assets (LOS, LMS & LCS), Bankers - SME, Corporate Banking, Retail Banking, Wealth Management, Liabilities (Debit, Credit, Payments), Channels (IB, MB)etc.
IT Recruiter
Rise Publishers and Creative Solutions
02.2014 - 12.2015
- Recruitments Utilizing various sourcing method like Web portals (i.e. Naukri, Monster and Times Jobs)
- Referring Internal Database, Employee referrals etc.
- Screening & short-listing candidate profile as per the requirements of clients.
- Coordinating with candidate for interview & conducting telephonic interview & for short listing candidates.
- Interacting with candidate, doing initial screening. Understand their competencies & skill sets, making them understand job role.
- Preparing candidates for interviewing with the clients by providing detailed information about business strategy, job descriptions, and expectation.
- Arranging for personal interview on short listing, having good coordination with the client arranging the final interview.Coordinatingwiththecompanyandwithcandidatesaftercompanyselectsthecandidate.
- Performing detailed reference checking and/or reference analysis on selected candidates and reviews results with clients. Maintaining daily/ weekly/monthly reports such as interview status reports, closure reports & feedback reports.
- Skills handled: SAP Bo, SAP CRM, MS CRM, Java Developer, Mainframe developer, SharePoint, Salesforce (sfdc),SAP Bo, SAP HR, SAP CRM, MS CRM, SQL DBA, Windows ADs, PeopleSoft developer, Oracle Apps DBA/technical etc.
Assistant HR
Genisys Software
10.2012 - 01.2014
- Conducted employee orientation and facilitated newcomers' joining formalities and induction to enhance onboarding experience.
- Prepare and submit all relevant HR letters (Appointment, Employment, Re-designation, Transfer, PIP and Address Proof Letters)/documents/certificates as per the requirement of employees in consultation with the management. Sharing Employee information in the form of Reports to HR spoc's based on their requirements.
- Prepared and submitted all relevant HR letters, documents, and certificates in consultation with management.
- Resolve grievances or queries that any of the employees have. Escalate to the right level depending on the nature of the grievance or issue.
- Resolved employee grievances and queries, escalating issues to appropriate levels based on nature of grievance.
Education
PGCHRM -
XLRI
JamshedpurMBA - Communications
Annamalai University
Tirupati, India 04.2001 -
Bachelor of Science - Computers
Sri Krishnadevaraya University
Kurnool, India 04.2001 -
Skills
- Total 8 years of professional experience with 75 yrs into Talent Acquisition and 1 yr into HR Generalist
- IT recruitment expertise
- Expertise in Application Tracking Systems, in creating new jobs with specific POS, updating pre-assessment scores and moving stages and offer initiation through ATS Screening internal applicants in ATS (Applicants received via LinkedIn, Glass door and indeed) and triggering UCAT assessments to candidates and build pipeline in advance
- Exclusively worked on Referral applicants on priority and implemented Bounty Referral Bonus strategies
- Worked with Directors of Engineering and Hiring Managers regarding requirement details and for interview co-ordination
- Talent acquisition of mid – senior management level consultants in the company
- Hands on experience in full life-cycle recruitment including sourcing, acquisition Strategies & Internal Hiring
- Strong Vendor Management skills, good in Vendor coordination and negotiation
- Demonstrated strong track record in recruiting talent through various sources, which included Job Boards, References & Internal Database
- Specializes in working with technical consultants in the network, systems and security, Infrastructure skills
- Well versed with social media sourcing strategies
Certification
Niche Recruiting – SHRM Certified Professional
Trained on Workday HCM Core Concepts
- Creating Supervisory Organizations
- Creating Jobs and Positions Using Different Staffing Models
- Hiring Workers and Assigning Security Permissions to Workers
- EIB’s (Enterprise Interface Builder)
- Basic knowledge on Reporting
Declaration
I Gurram Pavitra, hereby declare that the above details provided by me are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. (Gurram Pavitra)
Timeline
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Chargebee
10.2021 - 09.2022
Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist
Amazon
04.2021 - 07.2021
Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant
Apptio Inc.
12.2019 - 09.2020
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Sun Technology Integrators
04.2016 - 10.2019
IT Recruiter
Rise Publishers and Creative Solutions
02.2014 - 12.2015
Assistant HR
Genisys Software
10.2012 - 01.2014
MBA - Communications
Annamalai University
04.2001 -
Bachelor of Science - Computers
Sri Krishnadevaraya University
04.2001 -
PGCHRM -
XLRI